A place for parents to learn about their preschool children's favorite television shows with news from Playhouse Disney, Noggin, Nick Jr., and PBS Kids.
From the monthly archives:
Blue’s Room has had 5 half hour specials, but the first season debuted in 2007, Season 1 – 2007 – 10 Episodes Blue’s Farm Playdate: Blue and Sprinkles help Old McDonald by taking care of his farm animals while he’s away. Shape Detectives: Blue, Sprinkles, and Joe are play detective to help Roar E. Saurus [...]
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Playhouse Disney is getting a couple new hosts for their programming block. It will be 2 monkey puppets named Ooh and Aah. Ooh and Aah, a pair of fun-loving monkey brothers, will host the programming block every day from their tree house in the jungle. Ooh, the refined blue monkey, loves to read and listen [...]
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The Disney Channel has ordered a second season of Handy Manny starring Wilmer Valderrama. According to the release the second season will have an emphasis on Spanish language. In addition to imparting life lessons about working together, communication and setting goals, the new season will emphasize the series’ language curriculum, employing demonstrated techniques to help [...]
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Blue’s Clues which recently celebrated it’s 10th anniversary is spinning of a new series, Blue’s Room. Blue’s Room differs from Blue’s Clue in that 1)it is live action, 2)Blue talks. The Blue’s Room format should be familiar to regular Nick Jr/Blue viewers because it has been used for 5 specials. Joining Blue is her little [...]
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Nick Jr. will be getting a new series this fall as today they announced picking up Yo Gabba Gabba!. The series will be a live action magazine style show. Consistent with most new preschool television it will heavily use music. From the press release: Yo Gabba Gabba! stars Host DJ Lance Rock (Lance Robertson) who [...]
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Children’s Media Consultant takes a look at Hi-5 and generally likes what she sees: When executed successfully, the meter and rhymes inherent in songs can grab the attention of young viewers and encourage them to participate with what is occurring on screen. Refrains give further chances for viewers to grasp educational messaging. All of this [...]
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There will be 3 new episodes of popular Nick Jr. shows airing on Valentines day. In Go, Diego, Go! “Sammy’s Valentine†Diego helps Sammy the Sloth deliver a valentine to Lulu the sloth. Tasha, Pablo, and Uniqua are bikers who help mailman Tyrone recover a mailbag full of Valentine’s Day cards in The Backyardigans “Special [...]
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Business Week takes a look at Disney’s planned overhaul of Disney.com. It appears that Disney is going after a MySpace, Web 2.0 kind of thing to improve stickiness. I’m guessing (and hoping) that the bulk of this will be aimed at the older kids. I certainly don’t want my soon to be 4 year old [...]
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PBS will debut the second season of Franny’s Feet on February 3rd. The new season will contain 13 episodes. Check local listings for premiere times. Link:Second Season of Franny’s Feet Debuts February 3 on PBS Kids Show Link: Franny’s Feet at PBS Kids
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If you’re watching Nick Jr in 2007, chances are you’ll see your share of State Farm commercials. In a deal announced today State Farm is going to be pushing their automotive insurance on Nick Jr. It turns out that studies show that parents are much more attentive when watching TV with their kids than otherwise. [...]
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